Current Membership

The student membership of the 2001 Group is changing constantly, but the staff at our member institutions who are currently associated with the 2001 Group are listed below, and can be contacted by email:

Staff Contact Details

Oxford Brookes University:              Dr Nathalie Aubert

Queen Mary, University of London:   Dr Keira Vaclavik

University of Reading:                      Dr Brian Sudlow /  Prof Françoise Le Saux

University of Southampton:              Dr Jackie Clarke / Prof Mary Orr

University of Surrey                         Dr Dawn Marley

University of Warwick                      Dr Ingrid de Smet

University of Exeter                         Prof Valerie Worth / Prof Lisa Downing

Student Representative on the Steering Committee: Myles O'Byrne (Warwick)

Student Members

Below is a growing database of research profiles from student members of the 2001 Group.

John Speller, University of Warwick

Bourdieu and Literature

Due for submission in September 2009, this thesis will provide an analysis and overview of Bourdieu's work on literature and its implications for his wider intellectual project, cultural policy thinking and political engagement. In addition, it will feature a chapter on methods for conducting a Bourdieusian analysis of literary fields, an appendix of bibliographical tips on how to read Bourdieu's work on literature and sociology, and a bibliography of Bourdieu's writings on literature and literary fields. Bourdieu and Literature will be of interest and use to students, researchers and teachers of literary studies and cultural theory.
 

Vincent Bruyère, University of Warwick

My doctoral project examined the proliferation of discourses associated with the development of Postcolonial Studies in the field of historical and philological sciences. Building on the work of Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, the principal objective of the thesis was to describe this cultural phenomenon as a discursive event in the history of critical practices.

My postdoctoral research project can be situated at the intersection between the scholarship of new historicism (following in particular Stephen Geenblatt's work on travel writing and the work of Mary Gallagher on Literature and economy politics) transposed in the field of early modern Caribbean, and the latest critical concerns arising in the social history of Medicine. The proposed research consists in a study of published narratives and iconographic sources from the early modern French Caribbean period. It has two objectives:

1) to address the disciplinary functions of these books in a colonial cultural system, by analyzing a) the organization/illustration of the information they contain, b) the production of medical knowledge through the manipulation of indigenous healing practices, c) the legal and medical monitoring of a given population;

2) building on the previous points, to provide an alternative account of the rise of biopolitics in the Modernity that will challenge current perspectives on the history of medicalisation.